"For the Taliban, the clerics are a more important target for assassination than the president, the ministers, or the provincial governors," says prominent Kandahar poet Abdul Qadim Patyal, who became the provincial government's information and culture secretary after his predecessor, another poet, was gunned down by militants in February.

It doesn't really matter who wins the election in Iran since the clerics are the one holding real power but it does show that young people aren't predominately anti-american ... the youth will eventually triumph and I can imagine a more benign Iran 40 years from now or so ... especially with the globalization through the internet.